I think the main issue though is that it is too general. it might as well be general studies, with a slight focus on technology. I like to think of myself as a technical type, and it didn't interest me like maths and computing do. Same for the other couple of nerds in my class. But there was a wide spectrum of people in my class. There were some very arty types, sports-lovers, all-rounders, etc. It was universally dull.
Actually this isn't quite correct, at least not where I live (UK).
IT is drudgery. It involves looking at how people use computers in everyday tasks... The fact that you read slashdot shows that you will find IT hugely boring, seriously. I've done two seperate IT courses, one for GCSE and one for A-Level. Both were as bland and meaningless as eachother.
During coursework I tried my hardest to get down to some technical points, but the specification doesn't allow for that kind of thing. It is more of a kind of "look how magic computers are? they run on magic!" kind of course, you never get down to the nitty gritty.
CS on the other hand is a level-up. The social sides of computing is less studied, and computers themselves are more studied. ICT is a general "I can do computers, me" course, whereas a CS degree is a) more interesting b) more challenging c) employers will recognise b:)
Misidentification isn't the only issue. As discussed before, stuff like this breaks a bunch of licenses (e.g. from bands who license stuff under creative commons sa)
Legally, I suppose it would be within your right to create a fork under GPL2 but ethically and morally it would be stealing since the original copyright holder (Michael R Sweet) was the main contributor and any other patch contributors assigned rights to him before they were included in the repository. You would basically be carrying out a coupe and violating the spirit of the license if not the letter of it by taking something none of you owned and creating a fork of it. I don't think you would be allowed to license it under the GPL3 without the copyright holders permission since only the copyright holder can change license terms.
Bwahahahaha! Wait, you're serious? You sound like a grossly misinformed open source advocate. Forking is one of the most important parts of open source, because it allows developers to serve a section of the community that doesn't like where a particular project is going.
A generalisation, good sir. I too have a general dislike of produced-for-tv singles, and most of my favourite albums follow themes / are concept albums. However, length != quality. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club falls under your 45 minute mark, and if you look at a lot of beatlesesque indie pop, some albums fall well under 30 minutes, but can be fantastic.
£260.2 m from the World Service, of which £239.1 m is from grants (primarily funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office), £15.8 m from subscriptions, and £5.3 m from other sources.
£24.2 m from other income, such as providing content to overseas broadcasters and concert ticket sales.
I don't understand your issue with well-established facts. The BBC is a public funded organisation. So what if the total money taken via TV taxes doesn't add up to the BBC's budget? If the TV license was stopped, the first organisation to have their government funding cut is the BBC.
I don't think so. The pie is high now - I think it is intended to show that the RIAA isn't the only party capable of an all-out offense. As most of the claims by the RIAA are frivolous anyway, this might put the claims in perspective, at least in the eyes of the public and hopefully in the eyes of the judge. It isn't about winning with this point, it's about making the legal system reconsider some well-defined boundries in what is acceptable for the RIAA to do.
I hope it works (:
I'm beginning to think the tide is turning on the RIAA.
Why aren't people satisfied with their surroundings as their own personal God? I think this is the basis of deism, and I've read its the belief Albert Einstein held.
What bugs me is how someone can look at something they don't understand, and blame it on something they can't understand. If something complex is a product of something else complex, why not form a recursion? Why blame it on God? It may be easier to do, but it takes curiosity out of life.
What ever happened to email validation?
You give script your email address, it sends you an email and you follow a validation link within the email. Implementing this on my website where I had a captcha before got rid of 100% of the spam.
Yeah, that sort of thing works for small sites. Until someone targets your site specifically. Email verification in no way separates bot from human. I could have up a script in an hour or so to sign up to your site and "click" the verification link in the email.
There are also other little dirty tricks you can do to ensure it's a human on the other end, one of my favorites is to check the referrer URL when accepting a comment... if it's not being referred from my entry forum then it just happily throws the request away. Even if it's not spam it's probably something malicious anyway.
Again, same principle applies. Referer is just an optional HTTP header, not bot-proof by anyone's standards
Shi's legal challenge, filed on May 29 in U.S. District Court, is part of a lawsuit filed earlier by the World Organization for Human Rights USA. The group is suing Yahoo Inc. and its subsidiary in Hong Kong. Also named is Alibaba.com Inc., a Yahoo partner that runs Yahoo China.
He's suing in a U.S. court. I'm fairly sure there are laws in the U.S. prohibiting companies governed by U.S. law from giving away confidential data (in this case the email) to countries where it is likely to get the person imprisoned.
It would certainly be illegal in the UK under the data protection act, I don't know much about U.S. law.
The whole "UK is a big brother society" thing is overdone. 99% of cameras are just local shops looking out for their business. Remember that the UK is densely populated and natural selection has ground the a halt; council estates breed criminals. Sure, there are a lot of cameras, but it isn't some government conspiracy that people make it out to be.
I don't know about that; I'm a web dev, and I always always use Paint Shop Pro 7 on windows. The GIMP I am learning to use, but I don't like it half as much. I occasionally crack open Photoshop for text effects.
What? I know we get a lot of "RTFA" around here, but read the fucking summary! Shall I condense it down for you further, since I see your time is precious?
Study #1 finds that Microsoft has made no improvements (XP -> Vista)
Study #2 finds Study #1 to be incorrect and badly done./. reports on study #2.
In essence, the story accepts that XP isn't as secure as it could be, but Vista improves on this significantly. Its one of the most pro-MS stories I've seen on slashdot for a little while now. Of course, I'd never touch Vista personally, but that doesn't mean it isn't an improvement over XP in security.
For the record, gnomad2 is perhaps the most awful piece of software ever. For those of us who actually organise our music into folders, it is unusable. I use kzenexplorer (on my GNOME desktop). You just drag & drop mp3s, and the interface for viewing your hardware player's library is superior.
I've been using this player for a long while now. However, it could do with some improvement:
a) It is awfully slow, especially on startup. I'm not on a slow system, and other apps will be up within a matter of seconds.
b) It isn't programmable from the command line ( --help will launch the player..)
c) No lirc support
d) No support for moving files once they've downloaded.
This all relates to my current version, which I can't check at the moment. If any of this has been improved, please excuse this post (:
Well, I don't think alien life is bound by the limits of our imagination, but think about it; if life is evolving on this planet, given the age of the universe, there's a good chance they'll be well evolved. Human intelligent seems to increase at a greater rate as time passes (millions of years without alphabets and now we are working on nano technology only a few millenniums afterwards?). The chance of finding a civilisation akin to that of earth's in the 1800s is minute compared to the chance of finding one with no real technology, and the chance of that is (imho) less real than finding a civilisation that are more technologically advanced.
A couple of points though - I don't watch sci-fi, and I don't really study this kinda stuff.... but just because the conditions are okay for life as we know it, why would it start? And how? Not rhetorical questions.
The bounty is for a zero-day code execution hole on the following Internet infrastructure technologies:... Microsoft Internet Information (IIS) Server and Microsoft Exchange Server
How do they expect to find $16,000 a day? Bank robberies?
The irony lies in the fact that flickr, owned by yahoo, removed the post, whereas another yahoo service retains it. flickr made its best effort to completely remove the post, while yahoo cache put a bee in that bonnet.
Slashdot Mirror
I think the main issue though is that it is too general. it might as well be general studies, with a slight focus on technology. I like to think of myself as a technical type, and it didn't interest me like maths and computing do. Same for the other couple of nerds in my class. But there was a wide spectrum of people in my class. There were some very arty types, sports-lovers, all-rounders, etc. It was universally dull.
Actually this isn't quite correct, at least not where I live (UK).
:)
IT is drudgery. It involves looking at how people use computers in everyday tasks... The fact that you read slashdot shows that you will find IT hugely boring, seriously. I've done two seperate IT courses, one for GCSE and one for A-Level. Both were as bland and meaningless as eachother.
During coursework I tried my hardest to get down to some technical points, but the specification doesn't allow for that kind of thing. It is more of a kind of "look how magic computers are? they run on magic!" kind of course, you never get down to the nitty gritty.
CS on the other hand is a level-up. The social sides of computing is less studied, and computers themselves are more studied. ICT is a general "I can do computers, me" course, whereas a CS degree is a) more interesting b) more challenging c) employers will recognise b
Misidentification isn't the only issue. As discussed before, stuff like this breaks a bunch of licenses (e.g. from bands who license stuff under creative commons sa)
A generalisation, good sir. I too have a general dislike of produced-for-tv singles, and most of my favourite albums follow themes / are concept albums. However, length != quality. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club falls under your 45 minute mark, and if you look at a lot of beatlesesque indie pop, some albums fall well under 30 minutes, but can be fantastic.
;)
Still doesn't beat out tool, thought
Interesting you should bring that up, as in 1994 a conservative MP died from auto-erotic asphyxiation, combined with self-bondage and cross-dressing.
Annual report says:
- £3,100.6 m licence fees collected from consumers.
- £620.0 m from BBC Commercial Businesses.
- £260.2 m from the World Service, of which £239.1 m is from grants (primarily funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office), £15.8 m from subscriptions, and £5.3 m from other sources.
- £24.2 m from other income, such as providing content to overseas broadcasters and concert ticket sales.
I don't understand your issue with well-established facts. The BBC is a public funded organisation. So what if the total money taken via TV taxes doesn't add up to the BBC's budget? If the TV license was stopped, the first organisation to have their government funding cut is the BBC.I don't think so. The pie is high now - I think it is intended to show that the RIAA isn't the only party capable of an all-out offense. As most of the claims by the RIAA are frivolous anyway, this might put the claims in perspective, at least in the eyes of the public and hopefully in the eyes of the judge. It isn't about winning with this point, it's about making the legal system reconsider some well-defined boundries in what is acceptable for the RIAA to do.
I hope it works (:
I'm beginning to think the tide is turning on the RIAA.
Why aren't people satisfied with their surroundings as their own personal God? I think this is the basis of deism, and I've read its the belief Albert Einstein held.
What bugs me is how someone can look at something they don't understand, and blame it on something they can't understand. If something complex is a product of something else complex, why not form a recursion? Why blame it on God? It may be easier to do, but it takes curiosity out of life.
Earth 2.0 is overrated. Have you thought how inaccessible this new earth will be to people using older extra-solar browsers?
He's suing in a U.S. court. I'm fairly sure there are laws in the U.S. prohibiting companies governed by U.S. law from giving away confidential data (in this case the email) to countries where it is likely to get the person imprisoned.
It would certainly be illegal in the UK under the data protection act, I don't know much about U.S. law.
Well played. Not that by excluding Google I meant I think they're ruining our privacy
The whole "UK is a big brother society" thing is overdone. 99% of cameras are just local shops looking out for their business. Remember that the UK is densely populated and natural selection has ground the a halt; council estates breed criminals. Sure, there are a lot of cameras, but it isn't some government conspiracy that people make it out to be.
I don't know about that; I'm a web dev, and I always always use Paint Shop Pro 7 on windows. The GIMP I am learning to use, but I don't like it half as much. I occasionally crack open Photoshop for text effects.
Okay, who modded you funny? I find myself hoping heaven and hell do exist when I see comments like that; you'd inhabit the latter.
I don't mean to nitpick, but have a glance over the Wikipedia page on plural of virus. A good discussion on the matter.
What? I know we get a lot of "RTFA" around here, but read the fucking summary! Shall I condense it down for you further, since I see your time is precious?
/. reports on study #2.
Study #1 finds that Microsoft has made no improvements (XP -> Vista)
Study #2 finds Study #1 to be incorrect and badly done.
In essence, the story accepts that XP isn't as secure as it could be, but Vista improves on this significantly. Its one of the most pro-MS stories I've seen on slashdot for a little while now. Of course, I'd never touch Vista personally, but that doesn't mean it isn't an improvement over XP in security.
For the record, gnomad2 is perhaps the most awful piece of software ever. For those of us who actually organise our music into folders, it is unusable. I use kzenexplorer (on my GNOME desktop). You just drag & drop mp3s, and the interface for viewing your hardware player's library is superior.
6gb Creative Zen Micro by the way.
I've been using this player for a long while now. However, it could do with some improvement:
a) It is awfully slow, especially on startup. I'm not on a slow system, and other apps will be up within a matter of seconds.
b) It isn't programmable from the command line ( --help will launch the player..)
c) No lirc support
d) No support for moving files once they've downloaded.
This all relates to my current version, which I can't check at the moment. If any of this has been improved, please excuse this post (:
Strong bad taught me this rule!
"Ooooooh if it's possessive, it's just I-T-S, buuuuuut ifit'ssupposedtobeacontraction then it's I-T-Apostrophe-S!"
Well, I don't think alien life is bound by the limits of our imagination, but think about it; if life is evolving on this planet, given the age of the universe, there's a good chance they'll be well evolved. Human intelligent seems to increase at a greater rate as time passes (millions of years without alphabets and now we are working on nano technology only a few millenniums afterwards?). The chance of finding a civilisation akin to that of earth's in the 1800s is minute compared to the chance of finding one with no real technology, and the chance of that is (imho) less real than finding a civilisation that are more technologically advanced.
A couple of points though - I don't watch sci-fi, and I don't really study this kinda stuff.... but just because the conditions are okay for life as we know it, why would it start? And how? Not rhetorical questions.
The irony lies in the fact that flickr, owned by yahoo, removed the post, whereas another yahoo service retains it. flickr made its best effort to completely remove the post, while yahoo cache put a bee in that bonnet.